The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-27
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ONE of Germany's famous military bands will
soon make a tour of England

soon make tour of England.
Mrs. JOHN W. MAcKAY is having a cloak made
from the breasts OF birds Of paradise. These
cost 30 shillings each. and ABOUT 800 birds will
be necessary.
A STATUE of the Swiss naturalist De Saussure,
who was the first to ascend Mont Blanc, was I'M
yelled at Chamounix on Aug. 2S, the Tooth ami
yersary of that event.
Two WOMEN at Beaver Creek, Ore, became
incensed at a neighbor and caught his two dogs
and saturated them with coal oil and then set
the oil on fire, literally roasting them alive.
JAMES MURPHY, of Louisville, Ky, was ar
rested the other day for an offense that is sell
dom committed, even by the most depraved-
| that of beating mis- wife with his wooden leg.
THE Japanese have legend that fish are the
| embodiment of the souls of naval officers, and
the African negroes believe that magicians as
sumo the shape of fish and come TO their nets to
| work evil.
LAST year Warsaw University contained LILO
students 172 of these being Jews. This year
there are !, $50 students, but the recent law re-
duces the number of Jews 10 10 per cent. of the
| total, or 125.
! THE libretto of Auber's opera la Refine dun
| Sour, which is no longer performed, has within
the last few years been appropriated by three
other operatic composers, Ignaz Brull, Kremser
and Forster.
|
cucumber vine that is sxty.fve feet long, bears
several cucumbers from three to four and half
| feet long, and doesn't seem to be half through
| growing yet
| Strawberries are said TO be particularly
wholesome as corrective of the condition pro-
| duced by malarial disease The white of an egg
contains as much food as twelve pounds of
| Strawberries.
| THE Suez canal cost less than 500, 000, 600.
| Two hundred and seventy five millions of dol
lars has been expended upon the Panama canal
and the prospect is that the project viii have to
| be abandoned.
THE house in which Payne attempted to muir
der Secretary Seward at the time of Lincoln's
| assassination is now offered for sale. 1t has
| long been used as the headquarters of the COM
| misSary- general
| T. E. RUDD was placed under a So, 900 bond at
Martin, Tenn, recently, to answer the charge Of
| assaultng Miss Adams. The examination of
! the accused was held in the opera house. and &C.
| admission was charged.
! THE first bread was made by the Greeks, and
the first windmills by the Saracens. Turnpikes
were originated in 1867. the sum of one penny
having to be paid for each wagon passing
| through certain manor,
| GEN. GEORGE A. SHERIDAN, who is now making
a livelihood featuring on Col Ingersoll. once had
a bank account which showed $750,00o of favor
| able balance. He put 100000 in Chicago real
| estate and lost it by the great fire.
| A FARMER near Harrisburg Pa, raised thirty
| two watermelons this year and he has had to
shoot salt into the legs of seven different boys to
| keep the melons at home. His lawyers fees
and court costs have been S265 up to date.
| JOE ANDREWS the San Francisco diamond
collector, wears $4,000 cluster of diamonds on
| his necktie, surrounding $4,000 opal. He
! wears a $4,000 single diamond on his finger
| and in his pocket he carries the finest opal in
| the world, for which he has refused $4,000.
| IL the middle of August there were in the
| eighty hotels of the Swiss Canton of Grisons
about $500 foreigners, of whom $500 were Ger
mans, 1850 Englishmen, 40 Italians, 400 French
| men, $40 Americans, 240 Austrians and 100 in
| habtants of other continents. The number of
| Swiss guests was LOO.
SERIES of revival meetings in Franklin
| county, Arkansas, have been broken up by big
| panther that has taken to prowling in the
| neghborhood after dark What put an entire
| stop to the good work was the finding of mans
| shoe near one of the brlIte's haunts and piece
| of a shirt hanging in the fork of a neighboring
| tree.
WHILE trainload of excursionists from Los
| Angeles, Cal, was spending the day at Port
| Pallona swordfish, fifteen foot long, ventured
| within the line of breakers and was thrown up
| on the sand. Within a few minutes the eXcur-
| sionists had carved up the big fish with their
pocket-knives, and they all carried supply of
| swordfish steak back to town with them.
ACCORDING to the Berlin Tagliche Rur,dschau
bills of fare date from the Diet of Ratsbon. in
1541, when the Duke of Brunswick astonished
| his neighbor at the table Count Hugo de Mont
fort, by frequently consulting long list, on
| which the cook had enumerated all the dishes
| and viaDds for the benefit of his Highness, so
| that he might regulate his appetite and save it
| for the best courses"
| The result of the survey and last census of
India are that the area of the peninsula of Hin
| doostan is |. 1872 ga square miles; and the popu-
| lation 253, 39 .S2l Although immense tracts of
| country are annually cultivated, according to
| the most recent survey 10,00J,0D acres of land
| suitable for cultivation, have not as yet been
| plowed. At the same time 120000,000 of acres
are returned as waste land
| ACCORDING 70 Mr. Holyoke the outlook of the
industrial class fifty years ago was as dreary as
! Siberia. Food was scarce. The English race
was thin. Ever girls had an ill-favored look
because underfed. la few years after the re-
peal of the corn laws every 1000 coo of adult
persons in England weighed 1000 tons heavier
than they did before the repeal, and the yonng
people had grown ten times comelier than they
WERE
THE North Bucks Liberal Brotherhood has be-
gun the attempt of cooperative farming Sew
enty-two acres belonging to Sir Harry Verney
have been leased at 10 shillings per acre, and
after being cut up into small lots, sold at auc-
ton 10 the members, the excess of price over 10
shillings to 90 to the general fund. Each ten
ant farms his own lot and the cooperative fea-
ture consists in the ownership in common of
implements, horses, barns, and thrashiug floors
GERMAN PAPERS relate. that the singer, Marie
Fullo, who recently died in st. Petersburg left
diamonds valued at 10000 f. to the cid st
son of the Car. She stated in her will that she
selected him because she had received the
diamonds from a near relative of his and knew
of no one better entitled to them than the heir |
presumptive OF the Russian Crown. Ii is said |
thot the young Grand Duke Nicholas intends |
to turn the diamonds over to several religious /
institutions.
THE other evening George Trumpler's little |
boy at Little Rock. Ark, less than years of |
age, went TO his mother and asked her if he |
could kill a bug that was out in the hall Mrs
rrumpler, supposing the bug to be a roach |
gave the little man permission to kill it, He /
ran OUT picked up some rocks, and did kill it, |
but his mother Mortified when the little |
hero walked in holding by the leg a huge taran- |
tula! Before getting the rocks the child had |
several times picked the spider up and thrown /
it against the floor.
The disaster of the Opera Comique and the
recent appalling calamity at Exeter, have
awakened the authorities throughout Italy 10
the necessity of providing for the safety of the
theatre-going public. At Genoa the Project or
dered some alterations TO be at once executed
in the two principal theatres, and two Others
were closed. The authorities at Florence have